Political Sunni Islam and Zionism; the Historic Alliance In The Middle East

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Erdogan during the fifth UN Alliance of civilizations Forum in Vienna, Austria on 02/27/2013.

Turkey’s prime minister and its Islamist Party leader Erdogan statement equating Zionism with fascism is wrong and offensive and simply not smart and patronizing.

Erdogan’s offence is like attacking the political Islam that he claims that he represents in Turkey and tries to sell in the Middle East. Or even like attacking Islam itself. The religions Judaism and Islam both embody social and political and spiritual teachings; they can organize by the mere words in their Good Books the lives and politics of their followers.

The State of Israel and Zionism are like Turkey and political Islam or like Saudi Arabia and other countries in the MiddleEast; period. Erdogan asked the UN conference in Vienna to confront Islamophobia but in the same statement, he attacked Zionism which is the idea of the State of Israel and is found in Judaism. His words do not multiply and do not add up and do not help the cause he is leading which is to confront Islamophobia.

By attacking Zionism, Erdogan immediately discredited his demand to protect Islam from hate and attacks. If Erdogan has equated Zionism with the Political Islam and asked to protect both, then he would have been considered a world leader and would have built a momentum for his demand to protect Islam.

I’m going to put Turkey under the microscope, the Turks are playing multiple political games simultaneously; the Arab countries and the State of Israel, the EU, Syria and of course the big ones, political Sunni Islam and Zionism.

Turkey is a major player in NATO and in the overall US strategic policy in the Middle East. But Turkey also plays the role of the cheerleader of political Sunni Islam; the heart of the religion of Islam as a system of governing and not just a religion. The Turks history in the Middle East during the Ottoman Empire was one of the darkest in the history of the Arabs.

The Arab countries in the Middle East should not be fooled by Turkish political rhetoric but should voice concerns about Turkey patronizing them. The Arab countries in The Middle East are so desperate for leadership that they look at the Turks for help.

Turkey is not there to help and it should not be anyway, Arab countries in the Middle East should look inward for cooperation including building bridges with Israel and for Israel to build bridges with them. Israel is closer to the Arab countries than Turkey by engaging in tough negotiations and hard politics, the Palestinians and the Arabs are forced to face reality for the first time in their history; that reality is that you have to earn credentials and earn what you ask for through self reliance and through smart negotiations.

And in the process and through hard negotiations and tough politics, Israel is evolving and its identity is becoming more and more conclusive and it is preparing its people for the inevitable; a Palestinian State in Gaza and the West Bank….and normality with the Arab and Muslim countries.

On the other hand, the history of the Arabs in The Middle East is a history of people that love to be fooled and be patronized, I think it’s enough, probably; maybe the Arabs need to try something else and hear different voices. The time is now for the Arab countries and the State of Israel to forge historic alliance similar to the EU.  Israel is helping the Arab countries including the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to build character. Turkey, however, is “helping” them, getting more and more patronized.

Picture is courtesy of RT for 

http://www.wespeaknews.com/politics/political-sunni-islam-and-zionism-the-historic-alliance-in-the-middle-east-149022.html 

Obama’s Inaction on North Korea

In 1992, while attending the Masters Program at the University of Iowa college of law, the professor of a course called Foreign Policy and National Security law asked us about predictions that we think would happen in twenty years, one of mine was that the two Korea’s will be unified by 2012;it did not happen, not yet, at least.

What took place and is taking place right now is a regime that is playing the nuclear game with the US and the US until now is returning the favor. A vague complicated game, to us, average Americans.

But today, it did not look like just a game; the North Koreans today announced that  they can attack the USA with nuclear missiles and that they are ready, on target , aiming, and waiting for the word “Shoot” from an eccentric, arguably mentally not stable, dictatorial  leader who inherited power in a country that says that its communist- Royal Communists.

The North Korean threat is not the problem, as gravely serious as it is; the problem is the US complacency so far, and the US reaction or lack of to this annoying game of politics. The average Americans, when we hear that a country is now threatening to fire nuclear missiles at us, the question arises as what we are going to do about it.

I have not heard a reaction so far except for a UN Security Council condemnation and sanctions this morning, which could be translated to nothing really. Or it could reach war as it happened in 1950 but this time North Korea has nuclear power.

President Obama in the middle of all these threats are nowhere to be found. The US is threatened, which to some might be a joke, but not to me, and Obama did not appear on TV, did not hold a press conference telling us how he intends to defend America in the remotely extreme  possibility that North Korea pushes the button and fires the missiles.

President Obama needs to address the American people of what he is doing, if any, if such crazy thing happened, what if North Korea fires, God forbid at us, how are we going to defend, do we have a net that would prevent any missile from reaching America. The politics in East Asia is not clear; politics is never clear, but the clear thing is that we have a quantifiable, measurable, and actual publicly sent threat to bomb America with nuclear weapons, and so far I do not see or hear a reaction. Obama needs to act now, not tomorrow.